LOL "they are now able to pick up the car from the docks themselves, circumventing additional delays."My scheduled delivery/collection day is 15 December. Dealer confirmed today that is still the case as their system hasn't been updated.
However, because of transporter/driver shortages
Anyone else had their delivery updated or given a firm date yet?
Electric cars over £40k aren't subject to the premium car tax rate, they will be from 2025 though.Doesn't appeal to me know, it's north of 40k now so in 2025 it's going to still have a couple of years of the £500 plus road tax
It is impossible to give accurate delivery info, there will an approx week window of when it will be arriving into the docks and once arrived the arrival to dealer dates given cannot be relied upon 100%.My dealer has told me it will come off the boat at Portbury. Bristol. Pretty massive set up down there.
I'm getting no updates from my dealer despite one of the staff there saying their system should be able to give accurate tracking.
I would like an accurate forecast, due to deciding exactly when to release my current car.
As my dealer is happy to provide me with one of their cars, l contacted my insurance company. They say, if the gap between selling my car and getting my new car is 7 days or less, then there's no issue (other than the fact I have to tell them it is sold, just in case someone else has a RTA of commits a road traffic offence). If it's longer, I will have to terminate my policy and then, request a new Insurance quote for the new car when it arrives (the assumption is they provide me with NCB details). However, If I sell my car after the 6th Dec, they will give me 14 day grace, (this is because I will have owned my current car for over 1 year.
Why is everything so difficult?
I find that doubtful as the first customer cars only docked a few days ago.According to the megane fb group, there's a guy in Birmingham who has collected his Techno E Tech...
I know you've blanked the reg out (never understand why people do this) what's the first 2 letters of the reg?View attachment 169746
They have had it for 4 or 5 days now, never seen them to have a chat about it
Strange that your car is registered already, All Megane E-Tech orders that are in the UK are to be registered by the end of 2022, regardless if they are at the dealer or not, however to register this early in the month seems strange, why not wait to register it when you have collected it as you will be in the car by the end of the year if it does arrive at your dealer by the 20th.My Registration Document showed up today, wasn't expecting that. Plus an email from Renault saying car should be at the dealres on 20 December, not 16th!
Yep, it will be due to the towbar, it is classed as a "restricted item", meaning the car has to be registered prior to fitment.Beats me. When I opened the post I thought it had been misaddressed, but I opened the doc and right enough it is for a megane.
Could it be to do with me having a towbar fitted?
Agree with the Priority List comment, I have a Launch Edition on order for a Priority List customer, which isn't now due until the 23rd!!Meanwhile, I rang my dealer after lunch. My sales executive is off again today.
How would that have panned out when today was meant to be my collection day.
Just frustrated, so much for the Priority List.
I know nothing of the port closing, I guess it will be closing for Christmas as will the import centre but TBH I don't know for how long for both, I should imagine the port closing will have an impact on the import centre as in they won't be getting any more deliveries but I cannot see it having an impact on cars already imported, as the port and the import centre are 2 different entities.Well maybe you could clarify something. The internet and forums can be both a useful and a bad place to be, as information offered up can be conflicting.
The story about the Port closing next week is "out there". Does this impact on the centre where they are processing new Renaults ( I was told they do things like Install/update the cars software, reducing the stress on the dealsrs), or is it separate from the Port?
In the absence of having a conversation with my sales exec, I just wondered if there would be any effect on through put.
Just do it through your phone with your own data, I was told the cost it was something like £6 per month for 3Gb.Anyone know how much the is "Orange data connection cost per month" I think there is a 6 months free trial 5o start with
This is if you want data for things like music streaming from the onboard apps.
The guy who came round to us last week to finalise a few bits about Megane handovers and test drive requirements, stated it wasn't worth doing and to use your phone data, most have unlimited or at least a very high data allowance, we haven't set up Orange on our demo and everything works fine through our phones.That's a bit stingy. £6 for 3Gb.
Unlikely any dealer will stock it, why would they want money tied up in an accessory to sit on the shelves "just in case"!Anyone know if the dealers are stocking the Trunk Compartment Storage box?
I seem to remember there was a dealer quoted on here where you can order them, but it would be nice just to rock up and get it.
There is some detection thing in the passenger seat which turns the passenger airbag on or off depending on if there is anyone in the seat or not.Went to fiddle with car.
Found out how to make the wingmirrors adjust for reversing.
Only one at a time which might be a bit silly but you have to select reverse and which mirror you want to dip by selecting it on the door control.
I also noticed an annoying airbag light on the roof mounted whawhah panel.
It didn’t seem to go off like the manual says so figured someone must have turned the knob to disable the passenger airbag for a baby seat.
I had the impression from the manual that it was at the side of the dash on either the driver or passengers side but both side just have blanks. Is that right? Where is it?
Gaz
I've heard of it with other marques; certainly a first for Renault though, to me it just seems like unnecessary complexity, what's wrong with just having an on/off switch!Took me a while to figure this out as well. Never had this in any other car, not sure why they want to disable it, and what if you put a baby seat there (could be a weight limit though, so only bigger passengers will trigger it or something).
Your car will have a 5 year/100,000 mile warranty, weirdly the print off that the dealer does which shows, the servicing schedule and warranty period has always shown a 3 year/60,000 mile warranty period, there will also be warranty and RAC cover information which will state a 5 year/100,000 mile warranty, this can also be downloaded and printed off from the Renault UK website.Oh well, the car will get rejected anyway if they can't resolve the stupid warranty period issue.
Gaz
